Yeah. Like, let’s just put the Lore reasons aside for a moment. Here’s the reasons I think Sethrak would be great for Alliance:
A truly beast race. Worgen are just werewolves, let’s be honest. The only other really ‘different’ race that Alliance has is Draenei. Sethrak would create a real visual shake-up in Alliance territory that would be fascinating to see.
A perfect dichotomy to Vulpera. You have the foxes on one side, the snakes on the other. It just makes sense. Having them both on one side I think tips the scales too hard in that direction. Plus, I also worry about people trolling Vulpera players as Sethrak…
It opens up for the Horde to get something different! Races tend to come in pairs, one for one side and one for the other. With Sethrak on the Alliance side, it opens up a slot for Horde to get something really different, like the oft-asked for Ogres or Vrykul. If you put the Sethrak on the Horde side, then that takes that slot, and Alliance is NOT going to ally with Ogres. Maybe Vrykul, but unlikely. And for Alliance to get another ‘human’ type race… eh. It just would make for a more boring visual impact.
Ogres and Vrykul aren’t based on existing races though, which is a major factor to being an allied race.
Sethrak use the Worgen skeleton, and the only other race that hasn’t had it’s skeleton reused for a race is Forsaken, so either Lightforged forsaken or thin humans would finish the set.
Yep and to double up on this, we could argue Faithless or reformed Faithless could possibly join the Alliance. Korthek was killed by The Horde and canonically we (The Alliance) have very little interaction with The Faithless Sethrak. Could give them a Forsaken esque story to wrap them into the Alliance, maybe led by a Sethrak that wishes to do better than the Faithless but does not want to rejoin The Devoted.
All just speculation on my part. I’ve done a lot of thinking on how unfinished the Sethrak storyline is. We need more lore too. As well as history!
If the Alliance gets the Faithless rather than the Faithful, then you’d have to establish:
Most of the Faithless had no idea that Korthek was planing to unleash Mythrax,
The main goal of the Faithless was to find more fertile land outside of the dessert, since deserts are the worst.
The Faithful, including Vorrik, aren’t letting them rejoin larger Sethrak people so there’s nowhere to go.
Then you can have a story of the Faithless leaving Vol’dun, finding some place to live, and that place being in Alliance territory.
I’m thinking they sail down to Stranglethorn and humans already living there ask the Alliance for help. That would give the Stranglethorn humans described in the Traveler series some development and an in game presence, and give the Faithless a reason to join the Alliance over the Horde.
They’re remain faithless though. No Druids, Priests, or Paladins, and their Shaman are just lightning mages.
Make an in game suggestion for them! It’s under the Help tab in the game menu. You can submit it in live, PTR or Beta. I personally would suggest PTR. Or Beta if you have access.
Blizzard is showing that they are listening!
And Sethrak are fantastic!
Is there anything official stating this? I’d be curious to see it. Cause I don’t right understand that thinking.
I’d have to do some digging. It was a few years ago now and I’ve changed computers since then. Though to be fair it could have just been Ion being Ion. Like his comment about preferring players didn’t run Demo warlocks.
i think they look really cool, but it’d have to be some break-away faction of their race, since the main group is determined for world domination etc.
ofc we have forsaken, and they should have been kicked from the Horde long ago for their “we hate all life” nonsense. Replace them with Sethrak.
Their leader was killed by the Horde. So if it’s Faithless maybe they can get some reform with their tyrant dead. Or ya know they can rejoin their Loa and The Devoted Sethrak and go Horde.
